A class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique.
What is the definition of genre? Please give an example of a book genre.
100
A GENE is a biological unit of material passed from parent to child that determines which traits the child will inherit.
What does GENE mean?
100
-al
What is the suffix to this word?
Alphabetical
100
+/- 70,000
About how many genes does the average person have in their body?
100
Generate
"To bring into existence" or "to make happen." What word am defining?
200
A subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, ,or composition.
What is the definition of theme? Please give me an example.
200
Congenital
Not a question, I'm a definition.
"occurring at birth," What word am I?
200
Pro-
What prefix has the meaning of "forward" or "before?"
200
A white cat
What color cat is more likely to have congenital deafness?
200
Genre
Means "type," "class," or "category."
300
Tone
Any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, or source. What am I defining?
300
progeny
One of the basic needs of all living things, both plants and animals, is to reproduce hence creating a _________. What word will fill in the blank?
*Hint: I am not a prodigy, although I could grow up to be one!
300
"Prefix" = Beginning or before the word
"Suffix" = the end of the word
Not a question, but a request. Tell me where "prefixes" and "suffixes" belong on a word.
300
Generic
If a person wants to save some money they might buy this kind of brand instead. What is that brand called?
300
Generic
"Like all the others in a category or class." What word am I?
400
Mood
A state or quality of feeling at a particular time. What am I?
400
GENUS: "race" and GENERIS: "type"
The Latin words GENUS and GENERIS mean what?
400
"to cause to be" or "to make"
What does the suffix -ate mean?
400
Birth, creation, kind, and type.
All the words that we've been learning have to do with what?
400
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Not a question, but a request. Use the word GENERATE in a sentence that shows you understand the meaning of the word.
500
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Not a question, a request. Please select someone from your team to recite a sentence that shows you know the word the definition of theme, genre, tone, and mood.
500
"Genos" means: Family
What does the Greek noun "genos" mean?
500
-ic
1. Suffix
2. Have the quality or nature of something
3. metal + -ic = metalic (made of or like metal)
-ic
1. Is -ic a prefix or a suffix?
2. What is the definition of -ic?
3. What is a word that can be transformed using -ic?
500
Generation
What do these scrambled letters make, what word?
(This is page 13 in your Greek & Latin packet)
O T I G E N R N E A
500
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Figurative Language. Who can give me 3 different examples?